Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ferals
Noun
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The ranch is home to a couple of hundred animals, including impalas, Nubian ibexes and an antelope found in Central Africa.—
Tim Stelloh,
NBC news,
24 June 2026 -
Dogs Inherited The ‘Wolf Pack’ Obligation Wolves are what biologists call obligate social hunters, that is, animals whose survival depends not just on being with others, but on coordinating with them.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes.com,
23 June 2026
Noun
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Simply set out bowls of coffee grounds among your outdoor seating areas to prevent ants, mosquitoes, fruit flies, and squirmy critters from crashing your barbecue.—
Joey Skladany,
Southern Living,
17 June 2026
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The brain as a black box In the race to understand our brains, Danionella has some key advantages over other more common lab critters like rodents.—
Jon Hamilton,
NPR,
16 June 2026
Noun
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What happens in a world where young people are always rendered as creatures of the present, rather than also existing in the past?—
John Warner,
Chicago Tribune,
20 June 2026
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Coffin co-directed four of those movies and voices every last one of the yellow creatures himself.—
Elsa Keslassy,
Variety,
20 June 2026
Noun
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There be beasties beyond US Route 93, bigger than my vision could handle.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
17 June 2026
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My bathtub seems to be a place these cute beasties like to hang out.—
Voice of the People,
New York Daily News,
16 May 2026
Noun
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Chef Angie Mar made the Beatrice Inn a meat Mecca for downtown NYC carnivores.—
Tony Sachs,
Forbes.com,
1 June 2026
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The rare baby boy was born Sunday after seven hours of labor and is doing well, said Matthey Lenyo, the zoo’s curator of primates and carnivores.—
Noelle Phillips,
Denver Post,
30 May 2026
Noun
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If researchers want to understand what the earliest jawed vertebrates may have looked like developmentally?—
Melissa Cristina Márquez,
Forbes.com,
18 June 2026
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At a time when the Earth was bare, when there were no vertebrates, no trees, no leaves, no flowering plants, and no plants with seeds, millipedes were feeding on decaying mosses, decomposed slime, and primordial gunk.—
Maria Mocerino,
Interesting Engineering,
13 June 2026
Noun
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These brutes commonly exceed 50 pounds.—
Keith Sutton,
Outdoor Life,
18 June 2026
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In Raspail’s tale, hordes of impoverished and dark-skinned brutes from India descend onto French shores by way of rafts, the first wave of an invasion of the civilized West by the brown-skinned developing world.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
8 Apr. 2026
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“Ferals.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ferals. Accessed 25 Jun. 2026.
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